Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

NASA and DARPA have partnered to develop a demonstration nuclear-powered rocket that could speed travel to Mars and make ...

An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear thermal propulsion, which uses nuclear fission and could one day power a rocket that makes ...

AI gives a thumbs up to Brett Bellmore innovative modifications to Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR).

U.K. start-up Pulsar Fusion has unveiled plans to build a fleet of reusable nuclear fusion-powered rockets, known as Sunbirds ...

A British start-up has unveiled an ambitious project that could transform space exploration. Their idea? Using nuclear fusion ...

A multibillion-dollar project is set to be constructed in China, the country's latest move in a push for nuclear energy.

The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...

Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR) design is a rocket that uses known physics ... for the liquid traveling through the reaction chamber, the site of maximum fission release could then be ...

Artist impression of a nuclear fission powered rocket. Credit: NASA/DARPA Throughout testing, GA-EMS used different methods of shielding to see whether varied materials can improve performance ...

And they were willing to devote huge amounts of resources to building rockets, jet planes ... Werner Heisenberg had calculated that nuclear fission chain reactions might be possible.

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...